"""accrual-report - Status reports for accruals

accrual-report checks accruals (postings under Assets:Receivable and

Liabilities:Payable) for errors and metadata consistency, and reports any

problems on stderr. Then it writes a report about the status of those

accruals on stdout.

The typical way to run it is to pass an RT ticket number or invoice link as an

argument::

    # Report all accruals associated with RT#1230:

    accrual-report 1230

    # Report all accruals with the invoice link rt:45/670.

    accrual-report 45/670

    # Report all accruals with the invoice link Invoice980.pdf.

    accrual-report Invoice980.pdf

By default, to stay fast, accrual-report only looks for postings from the

beginning of the last fiscal year. You can search further back in history

by passing the ``--since`` argument. The argument can be a fiscal year, or

a negative number of how many years back to search::

    # Search for accruals since 2016

    accrual-report --since 2016 [search terms …]

    # Search for accruals from the beginning of three fiscal years ago

    accrual-report --since -3 [search terms …]

If you want to further limit what accruals are reported, you can match on

other metadata by passing additional arguments in ``name=value`` format.

You can pass any number of search terms. For example::

    # Report accruals associated with RT#1230 and Jane Doe

    accrual-report 1230 entity=Doe-Jane

accrual-report will automatically decide what kind of report to generate from

the results of your search. If the search matches a single outstanding payable,

it will write an outgoing approval report; otherwise, it writes a basic balance

report. You can request a specific report type with the ``--report-type``

option::

    # Write an outgoing approval report for all outstanding accruals for

    # Jane Doe, even if there's more than one

    accrual-report --report-type outgoing entity=Doe-Jane

"""